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DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
NOTICE OF EMERGENCY AND PROPOSED RULEMAKING
The Director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), pursuant to the authority in Sections 4 (5)(A) (assigning authority to coordinate and manage public space permits and records to the Department Director), 5(3)(D)(i) and (iii) (allocating and regulating on-street parking), and 5(4)(A) (assigning duty to review and approve public space permit requests to the Department Director) of the Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002 (“DDOT Establishment Act”), effective May 21, 2002 (D.C. Law 14-137; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-921.03(5)(A), 50-921.04(3)(D)(i) and (iii), and 50-921.04(4)(A)) (2012 Repl.)), and Sections 6(a)(6) and 6(b), of the District of Columbia Traffic Act, approved March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1121; D.C. Official Code § 50-2201.03 (a)(6), and (b) (2012 Repl.)), hereby gives notice of this emergency action to adopt rules that amend Chapter 24 (Stopping, Standing, Parking, and Other Non-Moving Violations) of Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).
The emergency and proposed rulemaking will extend the current annual visitor parking permit (VPP) program until December 31, 2014 for each household with a VPP pass or eligible to receive a VPP pass. The Director will soon publish a separate rulemaking for public comment detailing a new permanent annual VPP program DDOT plans to implement.
This emergency rulemaking is necessitated by the immediate need to address the threat to the public welfare posed by an abrupt and substantial change arising from the expiration of previous visitor parking programs. District residents and their visitors rely on visitor parking passes issued by DDOT in RPP zones for a variety of needs that may include nurse care, child care, and other medical purposes. The emergency rulemaking will enable DDOT to coordinate with the Department of Public Works, Metropolitan Police Department, and the Department of Motor Vehicles to safely and efficiently transition to the new annual visitor parking rules in the least disruptive manner possible, avoiding unnecessary impositions placed on the public.
This emergency rulemaking was adopted on July 25, 2014, and became effective immediately. This emergency rulemaking will remain in effect until November 22, 2014, one hundred twenty (120) days from the date it became effective.
The Director also gives notice of her intent to take final rulemaking action to adopt these rules in not less than thirty (30) days after the date of publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.
Title 18, VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, of the DCMR is amended as follows:
Chapter 24, STOPPING, STANDING, PARKING, AND OTHER NON-MOVING VIOLATIONS, is amended as follows.
Section 2414, VISITOR OR TEMPORARY PERMITS, is amended as follows:
Subsection 2414.11 is amended to read as follows:
2414.11 Any annual visitor parking permit issued prior to July 25, 2014 shall expire December 31, 2014.
A new Subsection 2414.12 is added to read as follows:
2414.12 Any residence eligible to receive an annual visitor parking permit on July 25, 2014 shall be eligible to receive a visitor parking permit that shall expire December 31, 2014.
All persons interested in commenting on the subject matter in this proposed rulemaking may file comments in writing, not later than thirty (30) days after the publication of this notice in the D.C. Register, with Samuel D. Zimbabwe, Associate Director, District Department of Transportation, 55 M Street, S.E., 5th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20003. An interested person may also send comments electronically to publicspace.policy@dc.gov. Copies of this proposed rulemaking are available, at cost, by writing to the above address, and are also available electronically, at no cost, on the District Department of Transportation’s website at www.ddot.dc.gov.
